[Samba] "hide unreadable files" also hides readable files (SOLVED)

Christoph Kaegi kgc at zhwin.ch
Thu Apr 21 14:04:26 GMT 2005


On 21.04-08:10, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> | We have a Samba 3.0.11 Fileserver running on Solaris and
> | joined to an Active Directory.
> |
> | I have shares, with many directories, and I want to
> | hide the directories, people are not allowed to access
> | anyway. So I engaged the "hide unreadable files"
> | option.
> |
> | This basically works.
> |
> | The Problem arises, when the user is logged on locally
> | (not authenticated to the Domain) and mounts the share
> | by specifying his Username/Password.
> |
> | When he tries to look at his own files, they're hidden!
> | He only sees world readable data.
> 
> Are you using ACLs ?
> 

No, no ACLs.

But I managed to solve this problem by accident, though I 
don't really understand why in detail.

The problem only showed up when I mounted the share 
with username/password. When using domain\username/password
everything runs as expected.

Thanks for coming back to this.

Chris

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Christoph Kaegi                                           kgc at zhwin.ch
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